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openapi: 3.2.0
info:
title: GitBook Custom Hostnames API
description: The GitBook API
termsOfService: https://policies.gitbook.com
contact:
name: API Support
url: https://gitbook.com/support
email: support@gitbook.com
version: 0.0.1-beta
servers:
- url: '{host}/v1'
variables:
host:
default: https://api.gitbook.com
security:
- user: []
- user-internal: []
- user-staff: []
- integration: []
- integration-installation: []
tags:
- name: custom-hostnames
x-page-icon: server
x-page-title: Custom hostnames
x-page-description: Serve your GitBook content from fully branded, custom hostnames.
description: 'Extend your brand identity by mapping personalized domain names to your docs. This can help unify your documentation site with your existing company properties.
{% openapi-schemas spec="gitbook" schemas="CustomHostname" grouped="false" %}
The CustomHostname object
{% endopenapi-schemas %}'
paths:
/custom-hostnames/{hostname}:
get:
operationId: getCustomHostname
summary: Get a custom hostname
tags:
- custom-hostnames
security:
- user-internal: []
- user-staff: []
parameters:
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/hostname'
responses:
'200':
description: OK
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/CustomHostname'
patch:
operationId: dnsRevalidateCustomHostname
summary: Revalidate a custom hostname DNS
description: Revalidate DNS records and status.
tags:
- custom-hostnames
security:
- user-internal: []
parameters:
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/hostname'
responses:
'204':
description: DNS validation has been retriggered
'400':
description: The current custom hostname is inactive and cannot be revalidated
$ref: '#/components/responses/ConflictError'
'409':
description: The current custom hostname status does not allow DNS revalidation
$ref: '#/components/responses/ConflictError'
delete:
operationId: removeCustomHostname
summary: Remove a custom hostname
description: The custom hostname will continue to point to the content or organization unless it is used for another one.
tags:
- custom-hostnames
security:
- user-internal: []
parameters:
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/hostname'
responses:
'204':
description: Custom hostname did not exist
'205':
description: Custom hostname has been removed
components:
schemas:
CustomHostname:
type: object
properties:
object:
type: string
enum:
- custom-hostname
hostname:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/SiteHostname'
target:
oneOf:
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/OrganizationPointer'
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/SitePointer'
isActive:
type: boolean
status:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/CustomHostnameStatus'
urls:
type: object
description: URLs associated with the object
properties:
location:
type: string
description: URL of the custom hostname in the API
format: uri
required:
- location
required:
- object
- hostname
- target
- isActive
- urls
CustomHostnameErrorStatus:
type: string
enum:
- invalid_domain
- internal_error
CustomHostnameSslStatus:
type: string
enum:
- live
- ssl_unknown
- ssl_pending
- ssl_failed
- ssl_retry_expired
OrganizationPointer:
type: object
properties:
type:
type: string
enum:
- organization
organization:
type: string
description: Unique identifier for the organization
required:
- type
- organization
SiteHostname:
type: string
description: Custom hostname for the site, for e.g. docs.mycompany.com
pattern: ^([a-z0-9]([a-z0-9-]{0,61}[a-z0-9])?[.]){2,}[a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]{0,61}[a-z0-9]$
maxLength: 512
CustomHostnameDnsStatus:
type: string
enum:
- dns_passed
- dns_wrong_cname
- dns_no_cname
- dns_cloudflare_proxied
- dns_wrong_caa
CustomHostnameStatus:
type: string
oneOf:
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/CustomHostnameDnsStatus'
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/CustomHostnameSslStatus'
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/CustomHostnameErrorStatus'
SitePointer:
type: object
properties:
type:
type: string
enum:
- site
site:
type: string
description: Unique identifier for the site
required:
- type
- site
responses:
ConflictError:
description: Conflict
content:
application/json:
schema:
type: object
required:
- error
properties:
error:
type: object
properties:
code:
type: integer
format: int32
enum:
- 409
message:
type: string
required:
- code
- message
parameters:
hostname:
name: hostname
in: path
required: true
description: The custom hostname, for example "docs.gitbook.com"
schema:
type: string
securitySchemes:
user:
type: http
scheme: bearer
user-internal:
type: http
scheme: bearer
user-staff:
type: http
scheme: bearer
integration:
type: http
scheme: bearer
integration-installation:
type: http
scheme: bearer
oauth:
type: oauth2
flows:
authorizationCode:
authorizationUrl: https://oauth.gitbook.com/authorize
tokenUrl: https://oauth.gitbook.com/token
scopes:
user:read: Read your GitBook user profile.
organization:read: Read the organizations you belong to, their settings and metadata, and their AI agent conversations.
organization:write: Create organizations, and update organization settings and AI agent conversations.
organization:members:read: Read organization members, teams, invites and link invites.
organization:members:write: Manage organization members, teams, invites and link invites.
organization:ask: Ask AI questions across an organization's content.
organization:search: Search across an organization's content.
space:read: Read spaces and their content, including pages, change requests and their reviews, comments, files and revision history.
space:write: Create, update and delete spaces and their content, including change requests (create, edit, review), comments, and content imports and exports. Merging a change request also requires change-request:merge.
space:permissions:read: Read the users and teams who have access to spaces and collections.
space:permissions:write: Manage who has access to spaces and collections, including inviting users and teams.
change-request:merge: Merge change requests, publishing their changes to the space. Creating, editing and reviewing change requests only requires space:write.
site:read: Read sites and their settings, including navigation structure, linked spaces, customization, redirects, topics, AI configuration and documentation issues.
site:write: Create, update and delete sites and their settings, including navigation structure (sections, linked spaces, external links), customization, redirects, topics and AI configuration.
site:publish: Publish and unpublish sites, controlling their public exposure.
site:permissions:read: Read the users and teams who have access to sites.
site:permissions:write: Manage who has access to sites, including inviting users and teams.
site:auth:read: Read how visitors authenticate on a site and its security configuration, including private share links.
site:auth:write: Manage how visitors authenticate on a site and its security configuration, including private share links.
site:insights:read: Read site analytics and insights, including the questions visitors asked Ask AI and the answers they received.
site:ask: Ask AI questions across a site's content.
site:search: Search across a site's content.
integration:read: Read integrations, their status and where they are installed.
integration:installations:read: Read integration installations and their configuration, which can include credentials for third-party services.
integration:installations:write: Install and configure integrations on an organization, its spaces and its sites.
integration:publish: Publish integrations, which can request their own permissions on your content, and route their events to a development tunnel.
integration:delete: Unpublish integrations, permanently deleting them and every installation of them.
openapi:read: Read OpenAPI specifications.
openapi:write: Create, update and delete OpenAPI specifications.
x-provenance:
method: harvested
publisher: GitBook
source: https://api.gitbook.com/openapi.json
note: split by refine-openapis from the provider's own published document, verified by fetch (openapi/_original/*.fetch.json);
stamped by stamp-openapi-provenance.py (roadmap#793)